How I couldn't work that out

Hack,
There is one thing you can tweak...Please get rid of the thread bubble that pops up when you roll the cursor over a thread title. That is annoying.

Most of it seems positive. Thanks. Congratulations.

My only complaints are about the ratings, which I dislike, and the use of 'gender' rather than 'sex' (but maybe that came with the design? And anyway it's balanced by the use of 'emoticons' rather than 'smilies').

Perhaps at some point we can make a user preference for that, but we unlikely to turn it off globally. We went to some trouble to implement it in this software - it is not a standard feature and many people find it useful.

Don't like it. I find it, compared to the old one, the new one looks intrusive. Compared to a similar forum I go on, the layout over here looks..... ugh to be honest. Did a change of server really require a completely new layout? I want the old layout back.

I love that feature, I use it all the time on another forum. It's even better here.

I'm with Ivan here. Give us an option to get rid of the things as soon as possible please.

That's a bit naughty! We've all been opted in by default without Autosport asking permission. Potentially our details could have been passed on without our approval.

Not impressed guys...

Ok, thanks!

I like the thread bubbles. Very useful for seeing if a thread is worth opening.

I only realised you could turn them on on the old forum a couple of months ago.

That's so much nicer!

The forum's a nice improvement overall.

I noticed that too. Not a nice thing to see at all!!

I like the forum upgrade though. it's great to see Autosport on IPB. I'll sure miss seeing the Atlas F1 logo at the top of the forum though. I guess the Atlas "brand" is finally dead. Shame.

EDIT: Just found the Atlas skin! Love it! Thanks for keeping the old spirit alive, guys!

To clarify, that is certainly not the case. All members converted from the old software have no data protection preference until you specifically save either choice from the profile screen. Everyone should update their profiles anyway, as there are a lot of new features.

Yeah it feels odd to have the quote option underneath the post, feels like it should be on top. For the love of pete someone move the "Add Reply" button up abpout 600 pixels, this scrolling down is madness.

How can I change the time ? I really detest 02:37 PM, I want 14:37.

We have switched to 24 hour clock across the board, as it was before. There is no user preference for this.

I would but it won't let me:-



Why ? I enjoy getting a "Happy Birthday" from pascal on my birthday every year, but why do you need to know how old I am as well ?


Also, is there no way of indicating which threads had been updated since your last visit ? ala the old board ?

Yes, I'm afraid it did. Our old software was introduced in 2000 and was heavily customised to the site, beyond all recognition from the original version. We could no longer continue with the security risks that it posed - to the users - and the very old versions of server software that it required.

Even if we had moved to VBulletin 3, like Digital Spy use, there would have been major differences to get used to.

This is only the first day. As ever, we'll take all feedback on board and see what improvements can be rolled out in the coming days and weeks.

I have noticed that when I log into the forum, it tells me that my last visit was at 22.26hrs last night.

I have logged in and out a few times today. Should the last visit time not reflect that?

After ten years, any change was going to feel a bit strange....

But I don't like it. Mainly because everything is too big, and there's way too much white space/border padding. When you fist go in to RC, so much space is taken up you can't see the first thread proper. I'll post more later, but as a start, the poncy "" graphics need to go from the quote box. It adds nothing but lots of empty space vertically, especially when somebody has used a quote tag in their signature.

This. It really is intrusive with my browser not maximized to full screen. It would be awesome if this could be made optional in the near future. Ditto the big cartoon-y quote marks, but I understand all this comes with the backend changes, since I've seen both elsewhere. Oh course, I'm just grumpy to lose the nice, magazine page-like feel of the old forum in favour of a look I quite dislike. As such, I'm going to keep flogging my "is ugliez!11!!" dead horse into the ground!

On the plus side, the fast reply option is a great addition (assuming it is new and I somehow missed it in the past...) that I'll use lots!

and where is "mark all forums as read" option?

Stop press: People don't like change!

Looks awesome. Well done, Hack.

I love change. Good change, not just change.

BTW, the personal info options, for those into that sort of thing, seem vastly improved. Functionality-wise, the switchover is worth it. I expect security is quite improved as well. My big complaint is the generic and rather boxy blahness of the interface. But hey, design is what I do, so I'm just picky that way. I don't have any major problems; I'm only venting about a pet peeve.

I don't like this.

seems ok to. a bit too clean maybe but good.

keep the alt tag hover on title please, v useful
but perhaps as others say, you can improve the mark for having posted in a thread.

am sure there's lots of good new things to find, not present before. no time to look now, but am pleased with the overhaul i think. well done.

I dont like this new look....is there an option to return to the old look

Take a look on the forum start page, top right theres a button, forum options

This is gripe number one with any BB designed post 2002ish, the mark for read threads is terrible.

OK, there are 2 main things that I would like back, if poss:

1. it used to be that the arrow for new posts would appear when there were new posts since the last visit to the board - i.e. not since the last visit to the thread. It meant I could find out where to start looking for new posts. That seems to be gone, the only way around it seems to be to click on the first topic when ready to close the browser;

2. making a read thread a different colour. That only seems to happen if you click on the thread title and not the "new posts" little box.

Other than that, seems fine to me.

The autosport skin is like every other forum out there right now. The Atlas skin is downright evil in it's ugliness. It reminds nothing of the old fora and is simply is loud and obnoxious.

Hack,
I've noticed something that I think is a glitch. Put your cursor near a posters name that is very long and has (...) after it, the screen starts jumping.

remembered the point i wanted to make.
best thing about it is that bibendum has thrown up on it yet. (any idea when someone will, if ever, clean up autosport.com?).

one other bad point though
the name of the person quoted is tiny, making it hard to scan and find anything someone has replied to you on.

also the date and time read the wrong way round with the @ sign.

you have plenty of space to make that larger if you keep the quote marks

if there were some button to allow you to see who has quoted you, then even better. is that possible?

Not bad, and seems to run faster than the old one. However I have too agree with somone above that everything is too big now. Huge bars over each post, bars over quotes, big buttons everywhere ("top" and "report" are the ones most blatantly oversized), etc... A bit more of margin/padding over the forums content would be useful though. All those things could be easily tweaked with stylesheets though, so congrats on good job, but please work on it some more

so is it possible to have the old classic atlas F1 skin for the forum available?

That would be nice. This new look just seems so immature - it reminds me of the horrid early days of forums. Yuk. I feel like I'm at some tweeny message board. Not impressed.

That's what I was getting at, it feels like 1998 all of a sudden. Also, if you're not running SERIOUS res i'd hate to see what your screen l;ooks like 'cos everything is SO BIG.

Within the bounds of the new software, it is available already. Obviously it can't be identical because much of the furniture has changed.

Choose your preference via the drop down at the bottom of the page - near ADS BY GOOGLE - says autosport.com by default. You can choose Atlas F1.

Previously beautiful code formatted text looks arsey in many ways now:

http://forums.autosport.com/index.php?showtopic=108193

What's with the spacing between rows in my opening post there? It looks better in brunopascal's reply. Maybe it's related to my text there being copied from a text file, but then that's the only way to maintain a level of sanity when doing posts like that.

And bolding etc doesn't get recognised while used in code brackets, but seems to work using codebox:




But then that codebox seems to add heaps of white space in my example above! I'd like the best of both worlds, ie properly bolded text not surrounded by lots of nothing.

It's fine, its a change and like any change it will take a little time to get use to.

It looks fine on my 1280x800 macbook and also fine on my iPhone. You don't need anything near SERIOUS res.

Hack if I were you I'd take a 2 week holiday by which time 90% of the moaners will have disappeared and you'll be left with people with proper suggestions for improvement instead of people just not being used to something.

Big glitch? In the post linked below:

http://forums.autosport.com/index.php?show...t&p=3586984

there are two further links to previous posts in older threads. When you click on them, the software only appears to copy part of the link address and throws you onto the main board: this is what appears in my browser (FF 3.0.10) when I click on the first one -

http://forums.autosport.com/index.php#post2492387

Thread details completely lost!!!

Edit: and in fact new links created by right-clicking on the link address in the post produce the same result! No thread details, just the post number!!!

Hack,


To you and all the other web designers that help progress Autosport.com (AtlasF1) forward.
I think the new look is Great.

Mak!

I noticed that earlier in the shareholder's thread that an added blank row is between each row written under the code function.
After I pointed it out earlier in this thread, Hack changed the edit-time limit, so I went back to the shareholder's thread and edited it.

It seems this happened during conversion from the old design to the new. You basically have to edit all posts to remove the added blank rows.

It doesn't seem to be working with my.autosport.com yet - any idea when that will happen?

Tomorrow, hopefully.

I have noticed, that it's not possible to see all posts by a single poster in a thread by clicking the number of posts, by that poster, in the post-count list.

Will this be enabled later on? I like this function, and I use it to fast-check what I, or some specific poster, have written previously in threads in case I wished to repeat or quote smth.

oh, and is that "mark ALL FORUMS" option?

Hi, I recently started posting and tried to add a formatted text signature yesterday, before the upgrade happened.

For some reason my sig did not appear on my previous posts. I have tried again today but the sig still does not appear.

I also tried to add a 2k gif banner file instead (543x91x8bpp) and I got the following error message:

"Sorry, but you have posted more images than you are allowed to"

Any help would be greatly appreciated...

Well at least the formatted text signature is working now. If anyone has any ideas about that image error message I would be very grateful.

Thanks to the admins for a pretty smooth upgrade nonetheless. Personally I like the new layout